Band 7 COVID Therapy Lead

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be required to initially work virtually with other multi-disciplinary specialist colleagues within a weekly 4 hour MDT clinic to discuss patients that have been referred into the Service. This commitment may increase with time and will transfer to face to face sessions once established and COVID secure.

Your support will be integral to the future direction of the Service and the successful candidate will be expected to develop the Service in line with the national directives and system-wide agreements with our partners.

You will also be required to ensure delivery of high quality patient centred care measured by clinical effectiveness, patient safety and patient experience as well as meeting the key performance measures as required by the Trust.

Qualifications / training

Essential

• Degree or diploma in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy
• Registered with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Evidence of CPD including recent post graduate training relevant to clinical speciality i.e COVID
• Fieldwork Educator's certificate or attendance at Clinical Educators Course

Desirable

• Evidence of leadership training

Experience

Essential

• Significant post-registration experience, providing a broad range of experience in core areas such as medicals, older people, rehabilitation
• Highly developed professional clinical skills and patient flow management. This should include hands on experience with assessment and treatment of patients following COVID which can be applied in a variety of different clinical settings
• Managing staff e.g. junior staff & therapy support workers
• Able to demonstrate high levels of interdisciplinary working practices with a wide variety of clinical services/ health care professionals
• Previous experience with developing strong working relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders i.e GP's and the CCG
• Team/Service development including implementation of change management principles
• Experience of producing and developing reporting and data analysis tools

Desirable

• Team Leadership skills

Skills/knowledge

Essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including an ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information
• An ability to communicate where there are barriers to understanding
• Ability to respond to clinical pressures and show initiative to work in different ways to benefit the service provision for patients post COVID
• Demonstrate ability to prioritise clinical and managerial duties
• Strong leadership skills
• IT skills - computer literate and confident in the use of email, Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Proven problem solving, clinical reasoning and decision -making skills
• Committed to Patient-centred care
• An ability to cope with a range of complex options, find solutions, analyse, compare and decide on appropriate course of action related to COVID and the provision of care
• A specialist knowledge across a range of Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy treatments, routine and non-routine, requiring expertise within the particular field
• An understanding of discharge planning and wider system signposting between Acute Trusts and Community Services
• Understanding of current legislation and application to Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy
• An understanding and knowledge of how to utilise and produce technical solutions to safely capture and report on data, outcome measures and risks mitigation relating to the coordination of care provision for patients with COVID

Personal qualities

Essential

• An ability to prioritise and organise own workload
• Demonstrate enthusiasm for speciality
• Demonstrate a professional attitude
• Able to work with other members of the Team or independently
• Highly motivated to achieve role objectives and committed to providing optimised service provision for COVID patients and families
• Proactive, innovative, creative, enthusiastic
• Flexible and punctual
• Ability to manage time and stress

Other job requirements

Essential

• Able to cope with manual handling requirements
• Independently mobile to travel across the Trust area
• An ability to cope with occasional exposure to distressing/emotional situations
• To be able to work within the requirement within the 7 day working scheme (weekend working/extended hours)
• Flexibility across needs of the role to support in different clinical settings; COVID-19 assessment clinics, home visits, ward and community hub settings

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).